paul johnson
I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the…
- this sentiment, if understood broadly, would resolve like 35% of fights on the internet about Politics Strategy
- oh my god
- personally i don't think the idea of a creepy cynical bible-thumping pedo grifter marauding his way through an America that can't see his evil and treats orphans like shit is all that sensi--
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- this remains the funniest fucking thing of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFp...
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- big story of the last 60+ years in US politics is asymmetric disarmament around the concept of "grievance." too many Dems/libs bought pundit line that explicit invocations of injury were unseemly/illiberal. meanwhile the Right was happy to amplify those takes while leaning into victimhood politics
- Reposted by paul johnsonLife is lifeing at me pretty hard this week, messing up my usual writing schedule. But I did manage to join @nytimes.com's John Guida to discuss Backlash Presidents and what it tells us about Trump's second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- ICE/CBP shooting a child on camera is going to merge with the ambient Epstein Files energy in a world-destroying way
- Reposted by paul johnsonI don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone. In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
- my god, some sun outside. THE SUN
- this cake was baked a longtime ago with "hostility to most forms of soft social and political authority" becoming the grist for the mill of the GOP base. Covid more or less a perfect storm for turning the green shoots of Trump into a full-blown anti-public ideology in total ascendance
- my doctor is an insanely midwestern polish guy in his early 60s and i would do anything he told me to. he dresses like he thinks Marshall's is for the Rockefellers
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- The penguins kiss cam incident today will surely go viral
- Look...i mean...
- Modern European Jewry Soviet History 1919-1953 International Political Economy Knowledge Power and Desire Rhetoric of the Cold War
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Epistemology 2) Euripides 3) History of Rock Music 4) Dead Sea Scrolls & Apocrypha 5) Twentieth Century US Political History with @rauchway.bsky.social
- warra libidinal drive, mate
- Reposted by paul johnsonYahoo with the frontrunner for Most Insane Social Graphic of 2026
- Adrienne's work is among those that have best understood that the factual claim that "online is not real life" was, like any factual claim, one capable of changing over time...
- only good part of this is someone's gonna rig up Paul Revere riding around yelling "ass to ass"
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- Valentina Void is on the case
- Spanish don draper is on it
